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Oct. 9, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show

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	So I don't quite follow it.
	I'll tell you what I do, however, find just, I have to say, depressing, is the attack on him for the COVID number of deaths in the United States.
	I wonder, do they do that?
	The United States is eighth.
	I'm not including San Marino and Andorra.
	It would be 10th.
	They're too small to figure in.
	The United States is 8th in deaths per million.
	And by the way, I don't know if other countries count COVID deaths the way the United States does.
	If you had COVID and died of anything, you are listed as a COVID death.
	I don't know if other countries do that.
	I don't know.
	I simply don't know.
	It's an open question.
	Do other countries attack their leaders for the numbers of dead in their country?
	Let's see.
	So, if you or your friends of yours say, oh yes, it's COVID. See, if 100,000 Americans died, you realize if half the number died.
	You realize it would be the exact same attacks.
	100,000 Americans died because Donald Trump mishandled it.
	50,000 Americans.
	50,000 Americans died.
	Do you understand?
	It would be almost irrelevant what the number is.
	California is locked down when we have 23 people die a day, or whatever the very small number is.
	The President is attacked for telling Americans not to be preoccupied with COVID. It's exactly what a leader is supposed to do.
	And he's attacked for that.
	But you can't attack the people who attack the president for it.
	Thank you.
	It's a very perilous time in American history.
	1-8 Prager 776 877-243-7776 More and more scientists are coming out saying the lockdowns are useless.
	I'm going to be tweeting them and see if my tweet is removed.
	You can't even put scientists up.
	I read to you the 600 or 800, whatever it was, Belgian scientists who came out against lockdown and for hydroxychloroquine.
	I am...
	Absolutely amazed.
	And the left never amazes me.
	But on this one they did.
	Their hatred of Donald Trump is such that they have stigmatized hydroxychloroquine.
	One of the safest drugs ever prescribed.
	People have been taking it for over half a century.
	Millions of people have been taking it.
	It's an anti-malarial drug among other things.
	It's taken by lupus patients every day.
	The side effects are minimal.
	I have doctors coming on who swear to God they have saved lives using it.
	It's a combination of big pharma.
	You know how they gave the president remdesivir.
	Remdesivir is like, what is it, $2,000 a dose or something?
	And hydroxychloroquine is...
	It's a few dollars a dose.
	Nobody's making money on hydroxychloroquine.
	Folks are making a lot of money on rindesivir.
	You would think the left, if anybody would be pro-hydroxychloroquine, which is virtually free, or closer to free than it is to expensive.
	And Big Pharma makes big money out of remdesivir or these other drugs.
	you would think that the left would be the little man's defender.
	Mismanaged COVID.
	So the Telegraph in...
	In Britain, has a piece by an epidemiologist, professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford.
	Is that okay with you?
	Is that past your muster with regard to follow the science?
	Life can go back to normal if we make it our common goal to achieve herd immunity.
	We have a relatively clear picture of who is at risk.
	Let's isolate them from harm while the majority of people conduct normal lives.
	There was a piece in the Jerusalem Post about the increase in child abuse in Israel because of the lockdowns.
	The price paid by society for the lockdown Is just enormous.
	By the way, I saw another way of assessing death from COVID. And it's a very interesting, very interesting way of doing it.
	Not the number of deaths, but the number of years lost.
	So that if a 30-year-old dies of COVID, You have 58, 60 years lost.
	If a 90-year-old in a nursing home who is likely to pass away within a year, that's part of the reason they're in a nursing home, then you have lost one year of human life.
	And in that regard, this is a very much smaller pandemic.
	When you do it in human years as opposed to number of humans.
	So that is, I believe that that is, morally speaking, a legitimate way.
	A legitimate, not the only legitimate way of looking at it.
	I always think of my 90-something-year-old aunt, who is one of my favorite people on Earth.
	My aunt Chippy, who is in a nursing home in Florida.
	Do you guys not have guests now since, was it March?
	Where did the lockdown begin?
	Beginning of March?
	March, April, May, June, July.
	March, April, May, June, July.
	August, September.
	More than seven months.
	This is unprecedented, by the way.
	Unprecedented in history.
	Unprecedented in history is redundant.
	For those of you who follow the English language, I added in history for emphasis.
	1-8 Prager 776. And again, it's amazing how the...
	The Democrats in these places where most hit are not held responsible.
	The president is.
	They call him a dictator, and when he doesn't act like a dictator, they say he was incompetent.
	The massive attention given to the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, these are weird people.
	Very weird.
	They have mixed their messages and it's totally contemptible.
	Totally.
	To blame the president for saying liberate Washington?
	That's beyond belief.
	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	If you're on a college campus today or have a child on campus, there's a solid chance you'll hear this.
	All white people are racist.
	You might hear this too.
	America is founded on white supremacy.
	These two sentences are not mere overheated emotion.
	They express an ideology called Critical Race Theory, or CRT, which argues that race is a social construct made by white people.
	Just as race was once used to enslave and terrorize, so it is used today to keep America unequal, unfair, and hostile to minorities.
	The Trump administration just took symbolic and courageous action against CRT. Does America have real issues in its past?
	Yes.
	Have we made real progress that we must guard carefully?
	Also yes.
	The White House has led well here.
	I'm Owen Strand.
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	I'm interested in hearing your reaction to the debate.
	It certainly was different, wasn't it?
	Feisty?
	Entertaining, combative.
	The president came into the debate as if he were a boxer who had come in sweaty, steamed, ready to go.
	And that was the problem.
	I absolutely get why Donald Trump is so pedo.
	I mean, this is a man who ran for office, was ridiculed at first, Demeaned, mocked, he wins.
	25% of the Democrat delegation does not show up for his inaugural.
	Now, this isn't because of Russia-Trump collusion.
	It isn't because of the statements that he made in Charlottesville because he hadn't made them yet.
	The attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment, that's what prompted President Trump to put on his doctor to show people he wasn't insane.
	And then, of course, we had the two-and-a-half-year investigation of Russia-Trump collusion, all based upon mostly...
	Sketchy, phony, thin stuff that they would not have used against somebody that they like.
	Oh, did I mention he was impeached?
	All of this happened in three and a half years.
	And the man is down just six points or so in the latest national poll.
	It's extraordinary what he's accomplished given the pressure he's been under.
	So this is why he was so angry.
	And I absolutely understand.
	But this is about winning over the so-called independent, the swing voters.
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	And there's a chyron.
	Defense Department says, "Threat Con levels have not been changed." There are articles about, you know, continuity of government and Nancy Pelosi may need to take over.
	Have we gone crazy with the president's diagnosis, Dan?
	Well, I think it's over to the president and the administration to calm those fears, whatever they might be.
	Now, what I can tell you is Hey
	everybody, Dennis Prager here.
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	The four-year focus on Donald Trump has been in order to get him out of office.
	Nancy Pelosi speaking about steroids having an effect on the brain.
	I don't know if I know a human being who has not had steroids.
	I have broadcast on steroids after I hurt my back.
	Zero effect.
	I'm not saying every human being who gets steroids is zero effect, but everyone I know, which is significant.
	Well, that's anecdotal.
	Anecdotal is what you have experienced, and does it in fact represent a general truth?
	That's when it matters.
	If I have a friend who turned into an octopus, I could not generalize that people can turn into an octopus.
	But on steroids, I think that the generalization is apt.
	That's indeed correct.
	All right, let's go to Michael in Colorado Springs.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Described the people who wanted to kidnap and murder Governor Whitmore, the governor of Michigan.
	He described them as weird and despicable.
	But Governor Newsom, he described as evil and criminal.
	And I think you've got those two mixed up.
	Would you like to reverse that?
	No, I'll give all the same appellations to all of them.
	The difference is that they haven't done anything.
	They haven't hurt anybody.
	They were caught.
	Whereas Newsom has destroyed millions of lives.
	That's the difference.
	So, their intentions don't matter?
	As a general rule, intentions are much less significant than actions, and I know you believe that too.
	You have no idea what I believe.
	Well, no, so let me say this.
	Okay, I was giving you a compliment.
	All right, excuse me.
	Let me finish my thought.
	I don't know what you believe, you said.
	So you believe that intentions and behavior are identical?
	I didn't say that.
	I said you have no idea what I believe.
	Okay, what do you believe with regard to intentions?
	You're sounding like a fool, and I'm going to give you the time to undo the damage to yourself.
	Do you believe...
	I'm asking you a question.
	I'm asking you a question.
	Do you believe intentions and behavior are morally identical?
	Pretty much.
	I believe that...
	Okay, all right.
	Okay, then I understand why you don't accept my distinction.
	There you go.
	You were entirely right.
	I don't know what you believe.
	That's good.
	You know, I love clarity.
	I don't like...
	I don't insult.
	I try not to very avidly.
	It's funny.
	I would say if I have five basic beliefs in life, intentions and behavior being very different is one of them.
	I don't know how that is not obvious.
	The amount of bad in the world done by people with good intentions can drown the world.
	And the amount of good done by people with selfish intentions is enormous.
	There are people who want hospitals named after them, so they give an enormous sum of money to build a hospital.
	Haven't they done good?
	But what if their intention was to have their name on a big building?
	Is that in any way reduce the goodness of their behavior?
	Anyway, so be it.
	All right, let's...
	Tom in Naples, Florida.
	Hello.
	Hey, Dennis.
	Hi.
	We should be...
	Actually regaling in the, not that death is trivialized, but you have 2,000 deaths of Chinese virus.
	But yet at the beginning of the virus going through the United States, they were estimating, wasn't it upwards of 2 million people that were going to be dying by the end of the year?
	That's right.
	Well, that was the reason for the lockdown to begin with.
	Was this, what is it, Imperial College in London?
	That was what spooked Boris Johnson, who had no intention of locking down the United Kingdom.
	Folks, do you understand the precedent that is being set here?
	Every time we're going to have a contagious virus, we are going to lock down.
	As soon as epidemiologists predict a large number of deaths, we will crush societies?
	The damage done already to children?
	Damage done to families?
	I've got to get that.
	I can't believe I didn't print out that piece from Israel, from the Jerusalem Post.
	Can you check for that?
	Jerusalem Post, child abuse, COVID. Maybe that will bring it up.
	You know, and Israel is not known as a place with, you know, a sort of epidemic of child abuse.
	But Israel has its problems like every other society, and they're just exacerbated by this.
	I keep trying to figure out.
	You already got it?
	That is cool.
	I must say, that is very cool.
	I'm going to check in there.
	Social pathology is way up in Israel.
	This is Jerusalem Post, correct?
	Yeah, there you go.
	Sexual abuse doubles, homelessness up 70% for youth amid coronavirus.
	And like every other journal in the world, they get it wrong.
	Amid lockdown.
	It's an astonishing thing that people don't know the difference between the virus and the lockdown.
	But it's pretty significant.
	All right, my friends, we will return in a moment.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Kind of a shock to people to wake up and find out the president and the first lady have tested positive.
	It sent markets into kind of a tizzy, which they always overreact.
	But the President has the best medical care in the world.
	His national security advisor has had it and recovered.
	He will be in quarantine.
	He can run the presidency.
	There's no 25th Amendment.
	It is for most people a mild disease and we pray that it is for him and for Hope Hicks and for the First Lady and everyone in the White House who has it.
	I'm so shocked by the reaction online that I pray for the country as well that they get over this fever.
	You don't have to like Donald Trump.
	You just have to look and see what he's done to support him.
	He's done a great job.
	He has contained the Chinese.
	He has called them out.
	He has made the world aware of what the Chinese Communist Party is, of the million people they have in concentration camps.
	He is rebuilding our military.
	Billions more than President Obama had slated.
	The judges he has appointed, his third justice, Amy Coney Barrett, they're all great constitutionalists, originalists.
	They love freedom.
	He's deregulated the economy.
	He's gotten these bureaucrats out of your life, left, right, and center.
	We need to rebuke the elites in this country who write things on Twitter, and maybe you're not a Twitter person, because Twitter's a different world.
	It's Blue Check Twitter is, you know, basically where the Manhattan, D.C., Hollywood, and Silicon Valley elites live, and they talk to each other about people in flyover country with utter disdain and contempt.
	And if you're a working person, you know the economy was the best it ever was in January, and unemployment historic lows.
	It's coming back, by the way, with a super V. Yep, they hate the president.
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	Trending now on The Eric Metaxas Show.
	...say that we don't know how he will fare, nor how the First Lady will fare.
	I have been shocked in the last months when you hear that somebody died.
	When I heard that Herman Cain died, my goodness.
	So this is tremendously serious, which brings up the question how this will play with regard to this election.
	Does it give him sympathy?
	I think it does.
	In other words, I think that it humanizes him precisely in the way that his debate performance didn't humanize him.
	In other words, that was him at his worst, what people who don't...
	You know, Eric, you and I are both born-again Christians and we believe that God is sovereign and that he has a purpose for our lives.
	I was actually thinking of that point specifically while I was contemplating what to write because I do think that as for all the good that he has done, that he could be even better.
	with the reminder that his abilities only take him so far and that life is precious and that as God grants him each breath literally when you're talking about COVID you're talking about a respiratory issue as he grants him the next breath there is a gratitude that can be sewn into his heart for being able to do what he's what he's doing and I think if you took the monster accomplishments of Trump And you added to that a genuine God-centered humility that
	life is precious and life is valuable and we have to be thankful for every day and every breath that we have.
	I think that makes him, as you said, more sympathetic in ways that I don't think anything else could.
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	Trending now on the Mike Dellinger Show.
	This is an enormous moment for our... ... ... ...
	... ... ... I'm going to go ahead and put it in the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle.
	President was right, as usual.
	People concentrate on his manner.
	Substance of so much of what he says is so accurate.
	He said that after the statues X, Y, or Z, they're going to go after Lincoln and Washington, and he was right.
	And now there is a report.
	Out of the University of Wisconsin.
	University of Wisconsin-Madison student government passes resolution supporting removal of Lincoln statue.
	This is what happens when you send your kids to college.
	Many of them become bad human beings.
	If you oppose good, you're bad.
	Sean, may I tell the story of someone you know?
	Someone he knows posted a...
	How old is the person who posted this?
	24 years old.
	A 24-year-old he knows posted his ballot in which he showed that he was voted for Donald Trump.
	His brother in Seattle, older brother in Seattle, wrote to him a private note.
	Shared with Sean.
	Please, not please.
	You're a bigot.
	Do not speak to me ever again.
	And they were really close, you say.
	Leftism makes you a bad human.
	It is possible to be a good or bad person and conservative, good or bad person and liberal.
	Leftism makes you bad.
	If you don't turn out bad, you're not a leftist.
	You could be a liberal.
	It teaches you that the people who differ with you are to be shunned, including your brother, your mother, your father.
	It is okay not to allow your parents to see your children, that is, their grandchildren.
	if they are Republican or support, more specifically support the president.
	Oh, okay, so you're saying I probably cannot guess why they want to take the statue down.
	You're right, I can't.
	My assumption is every American...
	Well, yeah, he made racist comments in his lifetime.
	That's not the reason?
	Want to take the microphone?
	Tell us why they're taking it down.
	They're taking it down.
	It was very bad to the Indians.
	I did not know that.
	I just finished reading Bill O'Reilly's book on the Indians, which, by the way, paints America in a very dark light with regard to the Indians.
	It's not a pretty record.
	There's no question about it.
	But...
	Associated Students of Madison Diverse Engagement Coordinator Crystal Zhao explained in an email to the College Fix why the student government sided with the protesters.
	First, I would like to say that not all representatives in ACM Agree that Abraham Lincoln's statue should be removed.
	With that said, Abraham Lincoln is a representation of ethnic cleansing of indigenous folks and the fact that UW-Madison stands on stolen land.
	Well, then they should take down UW-Madison.
	Yeah, they should just dismantle the whole university, which I think I might side with them.
	Oh, yeah, that's a good point.
	Killing Crazy Horse, that's the name of that book.
	Many students do not feel comfortable seeing him every day when we used to walk to classes.
	When we used to walk to classes.
	Oh, that was cute.
	When they used to walk to classes.
	Alright, thank you.
	So, Lincoln, one of the many traits that leftism inculcates in you is arrogance.
	These students and all leftists, all, believe that they are the most morally advanced humans in history.
	They truly believe they are better human beings than Abraham Lincoln, than Winston Churchill, than George Washington, than Thomas Jefferson.
	I would like to ask them, who lived before you was better than you?
	It's an interesting question to ask a leftist student, or for that matter, Paul Krugman.
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	But the energy this president has, the ability to do all the things that he's done, are gifts from God.
	And I think that he's probably been tempted in his life to ignore that a little bit, and that this might be an opportunity for him to understand.
	These things, including the ability to be president and to affect things for good, These are gifts from God.
	These are privileges.
	And, you know, as you said, again, it's an opportunity.
	Sometimes when you go through something like this, it's God's way of blessing you.
	Well, I was thinking of that specifically when I wrote the section of the column today that said the president's going to have a hard time slowing down.
	There's an element to the manic addiction to success that for people that really You know, live off that vibe.
	And I think that sometimes there's just no other way for God to reach certain people than to say, I'm going to give you a timeout.
	So guess what?
	He's not going to campaign.
	He's not going to be able to be out.
	Having the big rallies, he's not going to be able to do all of this.
	For all the political things that are kind of under the microscope because of that, I'm okay with those setting aside for a couple of weeks if God does something in his life that is remarkable.
	And I think that when you're talking about a Supreme Court nominee that's going to be being examined during this same window of time, you're talking about a stimulus relief package that still probably needs to be passed, or at least Congress is arguing about that.
	Maybe it's better if he is.
	experiencing a little bit of a slowdown if God has predetermined that this is the time to do it.
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	Trending now on the Mike Dellinger Show. - I went to the, I was a private citizen, not a member of the broadcast community.
	I went as a private citizen because the press was closed off at a special event yesterday in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump National is, where the president dropped by to just give greetings to close friends in the area.
	This is his neighborhood, as it were.
	He came from New York, was in Florida now, but he comes to New Jersey.
	And it's only about 20 minutes from my house in kind of about an hour southwest of New York City.
	beautiful, ucolic area of New Jersey.
	So they said, "Joe, would you drop by, say hi, shake some hands?" I said, "I'd be more than happy to, because I really believe this election were in the fight of our life." And Mike, you know, and like we talked about on the show, I saw the president He was at the top of his game.
	It was three o'clock yesterday.
	When I tell you charming and vulnerable and funny and warm and powerful and so, you know what he did?
	He did a speech.
	for about a half an hour or so and he had to go and they he had to go he had to be back at the white house or wheels up at 4 30 out of morristown new jersey and he said you know what he looked at his at the people all around me i got to take questions these are my people he took 45 minutes A reminder that there's a banner for ADF
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	This is quite something.
	So, what is the latest here thinking?
	Those of you who support the lockdown, I'm curious if among, what percentage of supporters of the lockdown have suffered from it?
	I, in other words, lost their livelihood.
	I know everybody has suffered from it, so, you know, you got lonely is not an answer.
	By the way, dating sites are booming.
	A very interesting side consequence is, Makes perfect sense.
	That's why I'm bringing it to your attention.
	A lot of single people don't like the idea of being alone, which I couldn't blame them.
	See, it's easy to forget you're alone when you mingle with people, you know, at happy hours and at work, and then you go home, and if you want somebody, someone's there, and if you don't, no one's there, and you have your own life.
	Sort of focused attention on one's existential...
	What would I say?
	Existential condition.
	That's the word, yes.
	And being alone, really alone, is not the optimal state.
	So people are rethinking marriage.
	People are rethinking finding somebody.
	That might be a positive.
	And I think the whole thing is overwhelmingly negative, but that might be a positive in it.
	By the way, I said the president was attacked for saying, liberate Michigan.
	Like he, in some way, was an advocate or a reason for these people Deciding to...
	Some of whom, by the way, hate Trump.
	Deciding to support him.
	To kidnap the governor of Michigan.
	Like he...
	I mean, it's so dishonest that I pray nobody listening needs to be convinced of that.
	But ironically, when you say America is systemically racist, Or as Barack Obama said, while a president has racism in its DNA, or that cops are evil, cops should die, which is said at riots, that then when cops are attacked, your rhetoric is not responsible.
	See?
	Cops look to kill blacks.
	That's the narrative of the left.
	Cops look to kill blacks.
	So then when cops are targeted by a black, then that rhetoric is never regarded as responsible.
	Dale in Detroit.
	Hello, Dale.
	Thank you for calling.
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	Okay, go ahead.
	I don't know if it's so much of a disagreement or if it's I'm just playing devil's advocate or what.
	You mentioned that it was interesting that differently counting the deaths of COVID as being the years lost.
	Right.
	And I think the problem with that is it makes you look very insensitive.
	Some lives aren't worth more than others, but someone that's old or someone that has cancer, their life isn't worth as much.
	And maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
	No, it's fair.
	It's a fair question.
	The issue, of course, is not whose life is more valuable.
	But which is a greater tragedy is a very fair question.
	My parents died at 89 and 96. It was very, very sad that my parents died.
	It wasn't a tragedy.
	But if I had a brother or sister who died at 22, that would be a tragedy.
	Does that mean that my parents are worth less than my sibling?
	Or a child of mine?
	No.
	It means that on earth we understand death is inevitable.
	And so the closer you are to a certain age, whatever age is in your mind, of where it's unbelievably sad they're passing, but not a tragedy, then society understands that.
	And a mature older person understands that, and a mature younger person understands that.
	Let me ask you if that...
	Does that answer you?
	Yeah, it does.
	And everyone's using the wrong way of counting it to their advantage.
	And I'm only pointing out that if you said, well, let's count the years lost, then you could be looked at as being insensitive.
	Okay, right.
	That's why I answered it.
	But years lost is not insignificant.
	It doesn't mean the life isn't precious.
	It means that the level of tragedy is different.
	If 200,000 young people had died, we would look at this differently.
	I detested everything political about Obama.
	I detest everything political and even personal about Biden, who I consider without doubt to be one of the most corrupt politicians this world has ever seen.
	But I don't wish and ever have wished either of them dead.
	But that's the left.
	The left truly is fueled by hatred.
	That's why they don't think twice about hoping that the man who represents not just America, because that's who the president is, but who was the choice of 63 million of their fellow citizens should die.
	That's a message to you as well, if you're one of those people.
	And this is what we face.
	We love this country.
	We love our fellow man.
	We love our fellow American, irrespective of their skin color, where they came from, if they have an accent, if they're rich, if they're poor.
	Why?
	Because that's the American way.
	That's how America was built, by an incredibly Diverse group of individuals.
	And we're not a dictatorship.
	Therefore, we don't have to agree with each other.
	It's not about everybody singing from the same hymn sheet.
	It's about freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, the First Amendment.
	But even then, there are certain things which if you are a decent individual, You just don't do.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show. - Kind of a shock to people to wake up and find out the president and the first lady have tested positive.
	It sent markets into kind of a tizzy, which they always overreact, But the president has the best medical care in the world.
	His national security advisor has had it and recovered.
	He will be in quarantine.
	He can run the presidency.
	There's no 25th amendment.
	It is, for most people, a mild disease, and we pray that it is for him and for Hope Hicks and for the First Lady and everyone in the White House who has it.
	I'm so shocked by the reaction online.
	That I pray for the country as well that they get over this fever.
	You don't have to like Donald Trump.
	You just have to look and see what he's done to support him.
	He's done a great job.
	He has contained the Chinese.
	He has called them out So tell me the name of this woman on CBS Gail King
	and not only she were somewhat preoccupied with the fly on Vice President Pence's head Pence's head at that particular time when he said that there really wasn't systemic racism I saw the fly basically go and say what I I mean, it was very interesting.
	I don't want to call that a highlight, but that was certainly a memorable moment.
	She not only wasn't done, she was serious.
	I was looking for it.
	I didn't see it.
	I hear it.
	Did she have a smile on her face?
	So a fly landed on his head when he said there isn't systemic racism.
	So it was somewhat of a sign.
	Okay, continue.
	I still keep going back to that fly.
	That's clear.
	Because, you know, number one, I've never seen anything like that.
	It was a fly of color, too, that came at a very, very opportune time.
	A fly of color.
	Is there any other type of fly?
	Are there white flies?
	Caucasian flies?
	This is an amazing...
	Steve Schmidt also?
	Where was this broadcast?
	MSNBC? Weird behavior, and not for nothing.
	I mean, I don't think it's ever a good sign when a fly lands on your head for two minutes.
	You know, that's a sign all through history of sin.
	And historically, biblically, maybe you wouldn't normally say this after, you wouldn't, it's only safe to say this, sorry, after midnight, but, you know, a fly, he who commands the fly has always been seen historically as the mark of the devil.
	Well, see.
	Now as a journalist, now I have to ask for the record, are you joking?
	Because the fly could have landed on anyone.
	Yes.
	But it didn't.
	It landed on Mike Pence, and it says something.
	I don't know.
	They believe that, I must say.
	Yeah.
	By the way, I wonder when the last time Steve Schmidt said biblical, it's invoked here.
	I tell you, the professor...
	of evolutionary psychology that I had on I'm reading his book and he really does speak of this there is a pandemic of irrationality the likes of which we have not had in American history and it's particularly infected the best educated I want to remind you, by the way, folks, a great gift and great for you is PragerTopia.com.
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	If you're on a college campus today or have a child on campus, There's a solid chance you'll hear this.
	All white people are racist.
	You might hear this too.
	America is founded on white supremacy.
	These two sentences are not mere overheated emotion.
	They express an ideology called Critical Race Theory, or CRT, which argues that race is a social construct made by white people.
	Just as race was once used to enslave and terrorize, so it is used today to keep America unequal, unfair, and hostile to minorities.
	The Trump administration just took symbolic and courageous action against CRT. Does America have real issues in its past?
	Yes.
	Have we made real progress that we must guard carefully?
	Also yes.
	The White House has led well here.
	I'm Owen Strand.
	The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy.
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	Trending now on the Larry Alder Show.
	I'm interested in hearing your reaction to the debate.
	It certainly was different, wasn't it?
	Feisty, entertaining, combative.
	The president came into the debate as if he were a boxer who had come in sweaty, steamed, ready to go.
	And that was the problem.
	I absolutely get why Donald Trump is so pedo.
	I mean, this is a man who ran for office, was ridiculed at first, demeaned, mocked.
	He wins.
	25% of the Democrat delegation does not show up for his inaugural.
	Now, this isn't because of Russia-Trump collusion.
	It isn't because of the statements that he made in Charlottesville because he hadn't made them yet.
	The attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment, that's what prompted President Trump to put on his doctor to show people he wasn't insane.
	And then, of course, we had the two-and-a-half-year investigation of Russia-Trump collusion, all based upon mostly sketchy, phony, thin stuff that they would not have used against somebody that they like.
	Oh, did I mention he was impeached?
	All of this happened in three-and-a-half years.
	And the man is down just six points or so in the latest national poll.
	It's extraordinary what he's accomplished given the pressure he's been under.
	So this is why he was so angry.
	And I absolutely understand.
	But this is about winning over the so-called independents, the swing voters.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
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	And there's a chyron.
	Defense Department says threat con levels have not been changed.
	There are articles about, you know, continuity of government and Nancy Pelosi may need to take over.
	Have we gone crazy with the president's diagnosis, Dan?
	Well, I think it's over to the president and the administration to calm those fears, whatever they might be.
	Now, what I can tell you, just from my experience decades working at the CIA, that our friends, even our friends, but for sure our adversaries, are mounting a full-court press to determine what the president's health is, what are the contingency plans, how are we reacting internally.
	That's the first thing they're doing.
	So they're working overtime to try and get intel or to spin this in a way, in an informational way, which would be advantageous to inimical capitals.
	Am I right?
	Is that a good way of putting it down?
	Right.
	So that's the second thing.
	First thing is collect the information about what's going on.
	The second thing is weaponize it.
	Weaponize it with propaganda.
	And so you'll see our adversaries from North Korea, Iran, for sure, Russia, China.
	Seek to portray this as weakness of our democracy because nothing scares Xi Jinping more than democracy.
	And so they want to portray our political process as inherently unstable, which we know it's not.
	The third thing is we have to be prepared that they might test us in any one of the flashpoints around the world, whether it's Iraq, and that would be Iranian proxy militants.
	So we're talking about probing actions to see our...
	You know, China militarizing the South China Sea, that's an ongoing threat, but they may take other steps.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	...now by the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Good morning, Mr. Leader. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Great to have you. Good morning, Hugh. Glad to be with you. Have you spoken to the president since his diagnosis of the COVID virus?
	No, I haven't, but it certainly underscores that the coronavirus is not concerned about the American election and that it's not going away until we get a vaccine.
	Do you agree with the importance given the nomination of Judge Barrett to the Constitution of this month?
	I absolutely do, and you know that you and I both agree that the most significant long-lasting...
	Accomplishment of the last four years, the president coupled with this Republican majority in the Senate, has been putting young men and women on the bench who believe in the quaint notion that it may be a job the judge is to actually follow the law.
	Now we have an opportunity to put another Supreme Court justice in place.
	We've done 53 circuit judges and a total of over 200 to the federal judiciary that I think Will Judge Barrett receive a vote on the floor before the election, Leader McConnell?
	Well, the plan is for the nomination to come out of committee on October the 22nd, as Chairman Lindsey Graham has indicated.
	And we will be voting on the nominee very soon.
	I haven't picked an exact point to bring. - Yes it is.
	Ladies and gentlemen, since 1999, the second hour of my Friday show has been devoted to the happiness hour.
	Even in awful times.
	Even in awful times.
	That's it when you need it most.
	It's the happy, happy, happy.
	Those are the original lyrics.
	A lot of you have wondered.
	Why don't we play my long-time-used statement on if nothing's horrific, life is terrific.
	I think you'll now realize more than ever how true it is.
	Yes, indeed.
	Now, if you're a normal human being, you look back at a time when you could simply walk into a movie theater and watch a movie.
	You now look at that as, wow.
	God, what a wonderful thing.
	Go into any store, talk with anybody, eat in any restaurant.
	Life goes on with hustle and bustle.
	You look upon all of that with nostalgia and yearning.
	Did you appreciate it at the time?
	One of the unfortunate aspects of human nature is that we don't appreciate things till we lose them.
	May I offer a very...
	I was going to say self-aggrandizing comment, but it's not meant at all.
	I have no interest in ever doing that, ever.
	It doesn't interest me.
	But I want you to be aware of how often I have told you to appreciate what you have before you lose it.
	If you can only appreciate stuff when you lose it, it's not possible to be grateful.
	And gratitude is the mother of happiness.
	See, I've walked around my whole life in America thinking, Oh God, I love this freedom.
	I love it.
	I so appreciate it.
	And it's profoundly endangered.
	And I... I can say I certainly appreciated it when we had it.
	If nothing's horrific, life is terrific.
	Now, that's not my subject.
	It's my preface in light of the lyrics of the song that...
	The Happiness Hour is necessary even in awful times.
	The subject today is one that I have over the course of the 20 years of the show, of the Happiness Hour.
	I've had a show 35 years.
	But the Happiness Hour has had this subject, and I'm going to revisit it.
	My thoughts in different words or any new thoughts that have arisen.
	So I was asked to meet a friend of mine, a wonderful person, asked me to meet his parents.
	And why?
	Because his A brother has an addiction.
	I don't even want to say which.
	It's not important.
	But as an addiction.
	Okay.
	And the parents are distraught.
	So this brings me to the topic of what do you do with an unhappy child?
	Or troubled child.
	What do you do?
	I don't know if most.
	I don't know the number.
	The percentage.
	Many parents, their happiness is held hostage by their child or children.
	And I do not believe that that is a good thing.
	People don't realize how much of life is a choice.
	Lincoln said it beautifully, we choose to be happy.
	He had a terrible life, and he chose to be happy.
	I mean, terrible life?
	Do you have any idea?
	You know, he lost two sons.
	Correct?
	He lost two sons.
	But he had one particular, that was the...
	What is it?
	The white of his eye?
	The apple of his eye.
	It was crushing, the loss of the children.
	His wife was a troubled soul.
	I guess some people have written that in terms today would be bipolar or manic-depressive.
	Is that correct, the analysis of Mrs. Lincoln?
	Not to mention his country, which he loved.
	Was slaughtering each other in the hundreds of thousands at a time when the American population was so much smaller than today and He said we are as happy as we choose to be or decide to be Life is really a lot of choices One of the choices I advocate is not to be held hostage by your children with regard to your happiness Because if you are You
	know, ironically, you're almost making the argument to young people, don't have children.
	Because there's a realistic chance, this is not a one in a million, a realistic chance you will be miserable as a result.
	You raise your child, you do the best you can, and you love them, that's a given.
	But you cannot be held hostage by their situation.
	This is one of the old-fashioned views that I don't share.
	I have a lot of views that are old.
	But that's not a healthy one.
	One of the most memorable five calls in my history of radio hosting.
	Was on this subject when the woman called me.
	I wonder if she's listening now, as I have cited her around the world.
	Dennis, I have a daughter in her 30s.
	She's quite miserable.
	And I decided one day, I didn't break her.
	I can't fix her.
	That's exactly right.
	Why kids are broken is a mystery.
	The notion that you are responsible fully for your child who is addicted or whatever is as absurd as you are fully responsible for all the wonderful things of your child.
	In fact, it's more absurd.
	Human beings have natures, quite aside from other influences like peers and our awful schools.
	There are a lot of influences, but this nature thing is huge.
	This is a gambling.
	I could say it doesn't matter.
	This is a gambling addiction in this case.
	Why is one child a gambling addict and the other one couldn't care less about gambling, right?
	Tell me that's not nature.
	Do you have a gambling instinct?
	A little bit, right?
	I say a little bit because you like the stock market.
	I have no gambling instinct.
	It is zero.
	I have other instincts that I have had to battle, but that's not one of them.
	And most people in the stock market Have a gambling instinct, and the market allows them to honorably, I assume honorably, unless they put all their money in it, use it.
	It's more honorable than the racetrack.
	My grandfather, I'll never forget, lost a lot of money in the Depression.
	I had one poor grandfather and one, not rich, but comfortable grandfather.
	And he told me as a kid, he said, Denila, that's what he called me.
	Denila, don't put your money in the stock market.
	If you want to gamble, go to the racetrack.
	All right, hostage to your child's happiness.
	That's the topic.
	1-8 Prager 776. Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and you know we are in a fight for our fundamental freedoms.
	That's why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom.
	They are on the front lines fighting pivotal lawsuits for Americans whose freedoms are threatened.
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	I'm interested in hearing your reaction to the debate.
	It certainly was different, wasn't it?
	Feisty, entertaining, combative.
	The president came into the debate as if he were a boxer who had come in sweaty, steamed, ready to go.
	And that was the problem.
	I absolutely get why Donald Trump is so pedo.
	I mean, this is a man who ran for office, was ridiculed at first, demeaned, mocked.
	He wins.
	25% of the Democrat delegation does not show up for his inaugural.
	Now, this isn't because of Russia-Trump collusion.
	It isn't because of the statements that he made in Charlottesville because he hadn't made them yet.
	The attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment, that's what prompted President Trump to put on his doctor to show people he wasn't insane.
	And then, of course, we had the two-and-a-half-year investigation of Russia-Trump collusion, all based upon mostly sketchy, phony, thin stuff that they would not have used against somebody that they like.
	Oh, did I mention he was impeached?
	All of this happened in three-and-a-half years.
	And the man is down just six points or so in the latest national poll.
	It's extraordinary what he's accomplished given the pressure he's been under.
	So this is why he was so angry.
	And I absolutely understand.
	But this is about winning over the so-called independence, the swing voters.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Cuerca.
	And there's a chyron.
	Defense Department says threat con levels have not been changed.
	There are articles about, you know, continuity of government and Nancy Pelosi may need to take over.
	Have we gone crazy with the president's diagnosis, Dan?
	Well, I think it's over to the president and the administration.
	To calm those fears, whatever they might be.
	Now, what I can tell you, just from my experience decades working at the CIA, that our friends, even our friends, but for sure our adversaries, are mounting a full court press to determine what the president's health is, what are the contingency plans, how are we reacting internally.
	That's the first thing they're doing.
	So they're working overtime to try and get intel, or...
	To spin this in a way, in an informational way, which would be advantageous to inimical capitals.
	Am I right?
	Is that a good way of putting it down?
	Right.
	So that's the second thing.
	First thing is collect the information about what's going on.
	The second thing is weaponize it.
	Weaponize it with propaganda.
	And so you'll see our adversaries from North Korea, Iran, for sure, Russia, China, seek to portray this as weakness of our democracy because nothing scares Xi Jinping more than democracy.
	And so they want to portray our political process as inherently unstable, which we know it's not.
	The third thing is we have to be prepared that they might...
	Test us in any one of the flashpoints around the world.
	whether it's Iraq, and that would be Iranian proxy militants.
	So we're talking about probing actions to see our...
	You know, China militarizing the South China Sea, that's an ongoing threat, but they may take other steps.
	It's a happiness hour.
	Giving to good causes will make you happier, I promise.
	I do promise.
	It's a great feeling once you've done it.
	It is a classic example of you don't want to do it.
	It takes a couple of minutes, maximum.
	And you're giving away money.
	And then you do it, and you're a happier human being.
	You feel better about yourself.
	To the people who defend liberty in America for free.
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	DP here.
	The subject is being hostage to your children for your happiness.
	Now, I'm going to challenge myself.
	By the way, this is the way my brain works.
	Every time I come up with an idea, I think, what's wrong with it?
	So I'm curious.
	I'm looking at a very bright man.
	What is the challenge to my thesis that you should not be held hostage to your children's unhappiness?
	Here's the challenge.
	If your children's unhappiness, you're not going to allow that to make you unhappy, then will you allow your children's happiness to make you happy?
	And if you allow your children's happiness to make you happy, how can their unhappiness not make you unhappy?
	Which is human nature?
	Alright, so that doubles the argument against me.
	You say human nature is that the negative is always more impactful.
	Okay, fine.
	So that just adds fuel to the fire against my argument.
	If part of our happiness is determined by our children's happiness, goodness, decency, life, then how could you be happy if they're happy?
	But not unhappy if they're unhappy.
	So my answer is, you have to will it.
	That's it.
	And by the way, it's another interesting question.
	If your children's happiness is the only source of your happiness, I don't know how you can do what I'm saying.
	If it contributes to your happiness, that's terrific.
	I mean, you're abnormal if it doesn't.
	You have wonderful children.
	It doesn't contribute to your happiness.
	There's something wrong with you.
	I acknowledge that.
	But if the only happiness in your life is your children, that's not good.
	It would be terrible.
	By the way, your children don't want that.
	It's a terrible burden.
	Exactly.
	I said all the time, my parents were quite old when they, When they died 89 and 96 mother father respectively and I Was so grateful to them that they have full lives till the end You know in their in their mid 80s my parents who lived in New Jersey in Their mid 80s came to me in California by train That's
	how much they loved life.
	They took a train cross-country.
	How many people could say that?
	And they were crazy about each other.
	I mean, I knew it was fine.
	Not only fine, I loved it.
	My father's greatest source of happiness was my mother.
	My brother and I were certainly sources of happiness, but not everything.
	And I would be a narcissist, you know, trebled, cubed, if I would have wanted to be more the source of happiness of my parents than I was.
	I was delighted that they had full lives.
	It was such a relief for me.
	And I knew they delighted in me, absolutely.
	And that was fine, and I got a kick out of it.
	Did I ever tell the story about me and my glasses on CNN? Did I tell it on the air?
	I don't know if I ever told it on the air.
	This is classic My Mother.
	I was on CNN one time, and I mean, I was on CNN many times, but one time that I was on CNN, remember, unless you're in the studio, a guest on any of these live shows does not see anything but a camera.
	Right?
	I do not see the person interviewing me, the other guest, nothing.
	So I decided one night, for fun, for me, nobody would know the difference, I decided I'm not going to do this interview on CNN with my glasses on.
	I've never seen me without glasses.
	Partially because I can't see me without glasses.
	I wouldn't see me.
	So I took my glasses off, and I did my interview on CNN. My mother was watching.
	She got a big kick out of me on TV. And she was watching.
	And then they carried it to a second part, so there was an intermission for commercials.
	And my mother calls me up, and she never would do that when I was on the air.
	So I picked up during the break, and I go, Hi, Mom.
	And she goes, Put them back on.
	When your own mother thinks you look better in glasses, that's a sign.
	Just want to say.
	That's all she said.
	Put them back on.
	Of course I didn't because it looked a little silly you do with the first part of an interview with no glasses that you wear.
	But anyway, this is a very important issue about children and happiness.
	It's huge.
	So, I offered you the challenge to my thesis.
	You can't, and it's hard, but you can't allow your troubled child to rob you of all your happiness.
	Will they have some effect?
	They'll have some effect.
	But your right to a happy life is inviolable.
	Alright.
	1-8 Prager 776. Jennifer in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
	Hello.
	Mr. Prager, I am honored to speak with you.
	I have been listening to you for over 20 years.
	I have young children, and they all know your voice, and we listen regularly, so thank you for the richness you've added to our lives.
	Thank you.
	I'm calling because about a year and a half ago, my six-year-old son was suddenly diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, and he was six.
	My daughters were seven and nine.
	Hold on.
	Stay on with me.
	me and this is this is very important to me your call this is Owen Strand for townhall.com If you're on a college campus today or have a child on campus, there's a solid chance you'll hear this.
	All white people are racist.
	You might hear this too.
	America is founded on white supremacy.
	These two sentences are not mere overheated emotion.
	They express an ideology called critical race theory, or CRT, which argues that race is a social construct made by white people.
	Just as race was once used to enslave and terrorize, so it is used today to keep America unequal, unfair, and hostile to minorities.
	The Trump administration just took symbolic and courageous action against CRT. It issued a memo to federal agencies calling for the end of the government's CRT racial sensitivity trainings, terming them divisive anti-American propaganda.
	Does America have real issues in its past?
	Yes.
	Have we made real progress that we must guard carefully?
	Also yes.
	The White House has led well here.
	I'm Owen Strand.
	The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow.
	Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and you know we are in a fight for our fundamental freedoms.
	That's why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom.
	They are on the front lines fighting pivotal lawsuits for Americans whose freedoms are threatened.
	And they do it for free.
	That's why we're asking you to be as generous as you can by giving today so that Alliance Defending Freedom can continue to fight these lawsuits and be ready when your rights are threatened too.
	Give your gift now by visiting adflegal.org slash Prager and thank you for joining the fight for freedom.
	Trending now on the Larry Alder Show.
	I'm interested in hearing your reaction to the debate.
	It certainly was different, wasn't it?
	Feisty, entertaining, combative.
	The president came into the debate as if he were a boxer who had come in sweaty, steamed, ready to go.
	And that was the problem.
	I absolutely get why Donald Trump is so pedo.
	I mean, this is a man who ran for office, was ridiculed at first, demeaned, mocked.
	He wins.
	25% of the Democrat delegation does not show up for his inaugural.
	Now, this isn't because of Russia-Trump collusion.
	It isn't because of the statements that he made in Charlottesville because he hadn't made them yet.
	The attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment, that's what prompted President Trump to put on his doctor to show people he wasn't insane.
	And then, of course, we had the two-and-a-half-year investigation of Russia-Trump collusion, all based upon mostly sketchy, phony, thin stuff that they would not have used against somebody that they like.
	Oh, did I mention he was impeached?
	All of this happened in three-and-a-half years.
	And the man is down just six points or so in the latest national poll.
	It's extraordinary what he's accomplished given the pressure he's been under.
	So this is why he was so angry.
	And I absolutely understand.
	But this is about winning over the so-called independents, the swing voters.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berka.
	I And there's a chyron.
	Defense Department says threat con levels have not been changed.
	There are articles about, you know, continuity of government and Nancy Pelosi may need to take over.
	Have we gone crazy with the president's diagnosis, Dan?
	Well, I think it's over to the president and the administration to calm those fears, whatever they might be.
	Now, what I can tell you, just from my experience decades working at the CIA, that our friends, even our friends, but for sure our adversaries are mounting a full court.
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	Press, right, subject to determine what the president's health is, what are the contingency plans, how are we reacting internally?
	That's the first thing they're doing.
	So they're working overtime to try and get intel or to spin this in a way, in an informational way, which would be advantageous to inimical capitalism.
	Am I right?
	Is that a good way of putting it down?
	Right, so that's the second thing.
	First thing is collect the information about what's going on.
	The second thing is weaponize it.
	Weaponize it with propaganda.
	And so you'll see our adversaries from North Korea, Iran, Russia, China.
	And overnight, of course, our lives were transformed.
	Interestingly...
	I was also in the midst of a custody battle after a very contentious divorce.
	Seek to portray this as weakness of our democracy because nothing scares Xi Jinping more than democracy.
	And so they want to portray our political process as inherently unstable, which we know it's not.
	The third thing is we have to be prepared that they might test us in any one of the flashpoints around the world, whether it's Iraq, and that would be Iranian proxy militants.
	So we're talking about probing actions to see us.
	Yep.
	You know, China militarizing the South China Sea, that's an ongoing threat, but they may take other steps.
	Keep up with what's trending and subscribe on YouTube today.
	Right, right.
	But, you know...
	Trending it now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	...beautifully, and that it was very severe.
	So doing radiation chemotherapy, he lost his hair, he was getting out of cool...
	...and it was very traumatic.
	We were staying overnight in the hospital for...
	Have you spoken to the pandemic since the diagnosis of the COVID virus?
	This was not going to define the course of our lives and our ability to find happiness.
	And even in the midst of some of the most difficult times, and we didn't know really what the outcome was going to be, I decided that we would make our time together in the hospital as joyful as possible.
	We did crafts, we did music, we made friends, and we kept our mindset very clear and positive.
	But we were upbeat, and we were hopeful.
	We are a Catholic family, but, you know, it's more than that.
	It's a decision to be attuned to higher things, and that's what we did.
	And I'll say he made it through remarkably well.
	He is well now.
	He will continue to have tests for years to come, but he made it.
	What a call.
	You're an inspiration.
	Well, as are you, and I attribute much of my learning to you, Mr. President.
	And, like you say, it's a decision.
	We all have choices.
	And our children are depending on us to, you know, create the space for them to be their best selves.
	Well, as I said, she is an inspiration.
	It's amazing that the president was attacked for saying, make the decision not to be preoccupied, not to allow COVID to dominate your life.
	He was attacked on the front page of the New York Times.
	It should dominate your life.
	Look, the unhappy are in control of much of America.
	The unhappy make the world worse.
	I didn't say it at the beginning of the show today, but that is part of my boilerplate statement.
	The happy make the world better, the unhappy make it worse.
	Jennifer makes the world better.
	Wow.
	A contentious divorce with custody issues and a six-year-old with a brain tumor.
	I would have knocked a lot of socks off a lot of people.
	By the way, talking about socks, you know that there's a big seller at PragerU, Otto Socks?
	That's right.
	My bulldog.
	They're beautiful socks, actually.
	Yes, indeed.
	Indeed, I'm sort of second fiddle to Otto at the fireside chat.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Earth of the Taxas Show.
	Paris, Burry, the outside of Straton, the outside of...
	But think about this.
	The president's prognosis will probably be the most watched medical recovery history.
	My suspicion is Philly.
	We've never had an office holder.
	Yeah, it is.
	Alright, we'll be back in a moment Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show - ...say that we don't know how he will fare, nor how the First Lady will fare.
	Sometimes I have been shocked in the last months when you hear that somebody died.
	When I heard that Herman Cain died, my goodness.
	So this is tremendously serious, which brings up the question how this will play with regard to this election.
	Does it give him sympathy?
	I think...
	It does.
	In other words, I think that it humanizes him precisely in the way that his debate performance didn't humanize him.
	In other words, that was him at his worst, what people who don't like him or who don't know what they think of him, that didn't help him.
	I think this helps him.
	It humanizes him.
	You know, Eric, you and I are both born-again Christians, and we believe that God is sovereign and that he has a purpose for our lives.
	I was actually thinking of that point specifically while I was contemplating what to write, because I do think that for all the good that he has done, that he could be even better.
	uh with the reminder that his abilities only take him so far and that life is precious and that as god grants him each breath literally when you're talking about covid you're talking about a respiratory uh issue as he grants him the next breath there is a gratitude that can be sewn into his heart for being able to do what he's what he's doing and i think if you took the the And you added to that genuine God-centered humility that
	life is precious and life is valuable and we have to be thankful for every day and every breath that we have.
	I think that makes him, as you said, more sympathetic in ways that I don't think anything else could.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	This is an enormous moment for our nation.
	I will say I've been kind of lifted up a little bit by seeing some of the president's fiercest political opponents.
	Wish him Godspeed and recovery from this.
	What's your perspective as somebody who knows the president, as somebody who's been with the president many times?
	What's the Charlie Kirk worldview on the news that the president and the first lady have tested positive for COVID? Yeah, like everyone else, still processing it from kind of a macro perspective.
	I can tell you that the president is a terrific fighter.
	Look, he's going to take this very seriously, and this is not anything that any of us expected.
	People will politicize this.
	I saw a couple people very late last night when this news broke around 1 o'clock Eastern try to politicize it, but I think the rank and file are handling this fine from the Democrats and the left.
	But look, anyone who says they know what's going to happen is just guessing right now, Mike, and I just want to reinforce that.
	When I have a prediction, I will say it.
	I don't.
	There are about 500 different variables at play here of how this will impact the Supreme Court fight, how this will impact the presidential election, and how this will impact the inner workings of the White House.
	So at this point, I can take a good guess, but this is something that has so many different causes and effects beyond, I think, what a lot of us in the political prediction business can even try to chart.
	Some people are going on TV and they say, Well, this is going to help and this is going to hurt.
	No one knows.
	That's just a blind guess.
	And people should just say that because when you start going on TV doing that, I think it actually, you have a responsibility to the audience.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Subscribe on YouTube.
	Subscribe on YouTube.
	you I'll see you next time.
	On the issue of taxes, which of course came up, the president also had many, many things to say.
	He's paid all sorts of other kinds of taxes.
	yes indeed y'all Dennis Prager here.
	This is a happiness hour, second hour every Friday.
	The subject is being hostage, having your happiness being hostage to your children.
	And it is part of the greatest thesis of all that you have to make a decision to be happy.
	The instinct is to be no happier than your least happy child.
	So it's an instinct you have to fight.
	The more you fight your nature, the happier and better a human you will be in any event.
	That is the core problem of our secular society.
	Religious society, Judeo-Christian society taught you that you have to fight your nature.
	Judaism and Christianity both hold that we have a very flawed human nature, because it comes from the same Bible.
	I think it's 821, is it, in Genesis?
	The will of man's heart is towards evil from his youth.
	That's correct.
	All right!
	Melissa in Fort Worth, hello.
	Hello, Mr. Kraker.
	I'm so glad I got through.
	I just, I want to tell you I really enjoy your show.
	I listen to it all the time.
	But this topic really touches my heart.
	I basically have spent 10 years of just trying to be a peacemaker for my children.
	They're adult children now.
	One's 28, one's 25, a boy and a girl respectively.
	And for whatever reason, I felt like I always needed to make sure every Christmas, every holiday, every family function went smoothly at the cost of my happiness.
	So if they would argue, I'd try to make excuses for the other person.
	Or if they didn't get along, I'd constantly make excuses or try to bring them back together and things like that.
	And then Saturday I had an epiphany and I was like, they're adults.
	What am I doing?
	Why am I trying to force the friendship between the two of them that they don't want or are not mature enough to have yet?
	And that's on them.
	As a mom, I've done my job.
	They both have good jobs.
	They both live on their own.
	They both have friends.
	And they both are in well-established relationships.
	So I feel like my journey with that is over, and I need to focus.
	Now I'm just not being so controlling and just remembering that it's not about whatever their future is going to be or it's going to be what they make of it, not what I make of it.
	And so I've just had to learn how to back off.
	So I encourage other callers to do this.
	I salute you.
	You know, one of the great lessons of life, and I've never talked about this on the air, But you raised it.
	We think we can engineer other people's lives, but we can't.
	We're not engineers.
	Great call again.
	Another great call.
	I hope this is affecting those of you listening.
	Chicago, Tom, hello.
	Dennis, great subject.
	I'm a 60-year-old.
	I've got two children, 28, 27, 23. My 28-year-old moved home recently.
	He's a third-year law student.
	And he's had a drinking problem for probably 10 years.
	I should say he's drank for 12, 10 years.
	But since the lockdown, he has reached a whole other level of depression and drinking and frustration so bad that he tried to commit suicide about a month ago.
	Oh, my God.
	Well, we didn't know what to do.
	You know, I'm a hands-on parent.
	I do put a lot of happiness in my kids' happiness, and maybe that was a mistake.
	So we ended up having to call the police because we didn't know what to do, and they put him in the hospital overnight.
	Well, he came home the next day, and for the next few weeks, we caught him drinking again a couple times.
	In the last conversation we had, I called him, and this was in our garage.
	He said, Matt, I love you.
	But I can't help you anymore.
	You have to help yourself.
	And now you're starting to drag everybody else down with you.
	And I said, if you don't make corrections, you're going to lose the people you love.
	And so his mother and I, we've been married 30 years.
	We started to not disconnect from him, but give him a little more space so that we could then enjoy our old age.
	We realized he was starting to drag us down with him.
	And we'll always be there and support him.
	If he falls, we'll be there.
	But there does come a time when you have to start taking responsibility for your actions and your consequences.
	I'm a reformed alcoholic for 30 years, so this hurt me even more to see my son turning to alcohol to solve his problems.
	And it doesn't work.
	But anyways, we did disconnect a little bit.
	We don't put all our happiness in our son and other kids' happiness.
	But, at the same token, if they're happy, that does make us feel good.
	Makes perfect sense.
	It's not fair for a lot of parents.
	I, I...
	Thank you.
	I have seen wonderful human beings come from truly awful parents.
	And some awful human beings come from terrific parents.
	Or if not awful, well, I would say, because I don't tend to associate with awful people, but troubled souls from healthy parents.
	So it's important to remember all of that.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	If I wrote another book on happiness, I might title it.
	It's all a decision.
	Everything is a decision, and people need to know that.
	I can give you a few more examples back in a moment.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Now by the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
	Good morning, Mr. Leader.
	Welcome back to The Hugh Hewitt Show.
	Great to have you.
	Good morning, Hugh.
	Glad to be with you.
	Have you spoken to the president since his diagnosis of the COVID virus?
	No, I haven't.
	But it certainly underscores that the coronavirus is not concerned about the American election because...
	And that it's not going away until we get a vaccine.
	Do you agree with the importance given the nomination of Judge Barrett to the Constitution of this month?
	I absolutely do.
	And you know that you and I both agree that the most significant long-lasting accomplishment of the last four years, the president coupled with this Republican majority in the Senate, has been putting people on, young men and women on the bench who believe in the quaint notion that maybe young men and women on the bench who believe in the quaint notion that maybe a job the judge is Now we have an opportunity to put another Supreme Court justice in place.
	We've done 53 circuit judges and a total of over 200 to the federal judiciary that I think will reap benefits to the American people for decades to come.
	Will Judge Barrett receive a vote on the floor before the election, Leader McConnell?
	Well, the plan is for the nomination to come out of committee on October the 22nd, as Chairman Lindsey Graham has indicated.
	And we will be voting on the nominee very soon.
	I haven't picked an exact point to bring the nomination up.
	But it's front and center for the American people.
	And as we move ahead, I'll be more specific about the precise time for consideration on the floor.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Eric Mettaxis Show.
	The president's prognosis will probably be the most watched medical recovery in history.
	We've never had an officeholder running for re-election, basically against a virus that he's running against politically, now having to fight it physically.
	I think there's going to be a lot of observations about that.
	And again, I think this kind of casts some sort of pale or shadow.
	I'm not sure exactly what it does.
	The thing about this president is it doesn't really matter how big the story is.
	I mean, think about this.
	Nobody's talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg anymore, and they haven't for days, and she only passed away, you know, however long ago.
	These things in this cycle don't seem to last very long.
	So if he gets a good head of steam behind him, gets recovering, gets on the hydroxy, he's feeling better in five days, they say, yeah, you're going to finish the quarantine, but you can go back to a regular schedule inside the White House.
	That's gonna be enormous news.
	And then, you know, who knows?
	Maybe he'll be on full blast presidency and just solving problems like we can't keep track of.
	Thank you.
	It was Genesis 821. Cool.
	My wife, who IMs me and has...
	Every show, every hour for more than 15 years has written, I hope a lot of people heard you say that about trying to engineer.
	Maybe some light bulbs went on.
	So I should repeat that.
	You can't engineer others' lives.
	And if you do, you still don't know what the result will be.
	You may put them on a certain track through ingenuity, persuasion, deception, whatever, but you don't know where the track is going to lead.
	The subject today is not allowing your children to be the determiners or determinants of your happiness.
	It's hard.
	Happiness is a challenge.
	I am a big believer in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	I so resonate to the founders of this country.
	It is a major reason I love it.
	Because I love these people with all their flaws.
	Because I got my own flaws.
	And if we're going to stop adoring people who did so much great because of their flaws, You know who the only people you will end up adoring is?
	You.
	That's the irony.
	Lincoln was better than me.
	Thank God.
	Yes, indeed.
	Indeed.
	Thank you.
	Tony in Minneapolis agrees with me.
	Both daughters have attempted suicide.
	This is truly an example of which I could take every call.
	On the other hand, Peter in Los Angeles is distraught and helpless over his ill daughter.
	It doesn't help your daughter to be distraught.
	My heart goes out to you, but what I said is true.
	Tony in Ohio does not let his kid's unhappiness bring him down.
	All right.
	Isabel, Joe, Andy, Dan, one day we'll get to talk.
	Now call in on any subject under the sun.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show.
	Say that we don't know how he will fare.
	Nor how the First Lady will fare.
	Sometimes, I have been shocked in the last months when you hear that somebody died.
	When I heard that Herman Cain died, my goodness.
	So, this is tremendously serious, which brings up the question how this will play with regard to this election.
	Does it give him sympathy?
	I think it does.
	In other words, I think that it humanizes him precisely in the way that his...
	Debate performance didn't humanize him.
	In other words, that was him at his worst, what people who don't like him or who don't know what they think of him, that didn't help him.
	I think this helps him.
	It humanizes him.
	You know, Eric, you and I are both born-again Christians, and we believe that God is sovereign and that he has a purpose for our lives.
	I was actually thinking of that point specifically while I was contemplating what to write, because I do think that As for all the good that he has done that he could be even better with the reminder that his abilities only take him so far and that life is precious and that as God grants him each breath literally when you're talking about COVID you're talking about a respiratory issue as he grants him the next breath there is a gratitude that can be sewn into his heart for
	being able to do what he's what he's doing and I think if you took the monster accomplishments of Trump and you added to that a genuine God-centered humility that life is precious and life is valuable and we have to be thankful for every day and every breath that we have.
	I think that makes him, as you said, more sympathetic in ways that I don't think anything else could.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Mike Delacare Show.
	This is an enormous moment for our nation.
	I will say I've been kind of lifted up a little bit by seeing some of the president's fiercest political opponents.
	Wish him Godspeed and recovery from this.
	What's your perspective as somebody who knows the president, as somebody who's been with the president many times?
	What's the Charlie Kirk worldview on the news that the president and the first lady have tested positive for COVID? Yeah, like everyone else, still processing it from kind of a macro perspective.
	I can tell you that the president is a terrific fighter.
	Look, he's going to take this very seriously, and this is not anything that any of us expected.
	People will politicize this.
	I saw a couple people very late last night when this news broke around 1 o'clock Eastern try to politicize it, but I think the rank and file are handling this fine from the Democrats and the left.
	But look, anyone who says they know what's going to happen is just guessing right now, Mike, and I just want to reinforce that.
	When I have a prediction, I will say it.
	I don't.
	There are about 500 different variables at play here of how this will impact the Supreme Court fight, how this will impact the presidential election, and how this will impact the inner workings of the White House.
	So at this point, I can take a good guess, but this is something that has so many different causes and effects beyond, I think, what a lot of us in the political prediction business can even try to chart.
	Some people are going on TV and they say, Well, this is going to help and this is going to hurt.
	No one knows.
	That's just a blind guess.
	And people should just say that because when you start going on TV doing that, I think it actually, you have a responsibility to the audience.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today. Transcription by CastingWords.com.
	On the issue of taxes, which of course came up, the president also had many, many things to say.
	He's paid all sorts of other kinds of taxes.
	Sales taxes.
	Payroll taxes.
	Speaking of which, article in World Net Daily today about how the Bidens, Joe and Jill, set up an S-corporation to avoid paying $500,000 in payroll taxes.
	Perfectly legitimate.
	John Edwards did the same thing.
	When he won some big judgment when he was a trial lawyer, he set up an S corporation to avoid paying, I think it was $100,000 to $500,000 in payroll taxes as well.
	Now, nothing wrong, nothing illegal.
	Anything, any more than everything Donald Trump has done was nothing wrong and nothing illegal.
	But this is the side that wants to raise taxes.
	This is the side that says rich people are undertaxed.
	And here you have an opportunity to contribute $500,000 to the Social Security system and the Medicaid system, and instead of doing that, you set up an S-Corporation to avoid it?
	I mean, that's a point to be brought up.
	John Edwards set up an S-corporation.
	Remember John Edwards?
	John Kerry.
	Moored his 75-foot yacht in Rhode Island rather than in Massachusetts to avoid paying $500,000 in taxes.
	When the story became public, he was embarrassed and then paid it.
	but it shows you what rich people do to minimize their tax liability.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube today.
	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	This is a woman who's led an extraordinary life.
	She's got seven children.
	Two of them adopted, one with special needs.
	She's led an incredibly outstanding life with a wonderful family.
	We don't anticipate any kind of unanticipated event that could throw us off schedule.
	Now, in my opinion, Senator, four members of the Judiciary Committee have violated Article 6, which bans religious tests in the past.
	Senator Feinstein, when she asked or when she said the dogma lives loudly within you.
	Senator Durbin, who is himself a Catholic, when he asked Judge Barrett if she was an Orthodox Catholic.
	Senator Hirono, when she responded no to a question of religion off the table, and Senator Harris, in fact, I want to quote Tony Gutierrez from the America magazine, that's the magazine of the Jesuits, on August 20th of this year, quote, Senator Harris's questioning of Brian Boucher during his confirmation hearing for Senator Harris's questioning of Brian Boucher during his confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship also raises questions among Catholics, especially the Knights of Columbus, of which I have been a member for 15 Senator Harris, along with Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, question, Mr.
	Tell me when, because when you say when, I will put the mic on and start speaking.
	Until then, the only person who can hear me is you.
	Ready?
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and...
	This is the area you set the agenda, whatever's on your mind, about you, about me, about life, about death.
	God.
	Ooh, yes.
	Enjoy, my friends.
	And, of course, about my favorite subjects, classical music, audio equipment, photography equipment, fountain pens, and...
	Always there's another one.
	Oh, cigars.
	I got them all right.
	I got it all correct.
	I want to thank all of you who sent me cigars.
	I'm laughing because I've actually touched by it.
	And my wife gets a big kick out of it.
	I actually smoke my cigars in my home office with my wife seated there.
	She hates cigarette smoke and has no issue with cigar or pipe smoke.
	By the way, I smoke a pipe as much as I smoke, almost as much as I smoke a cigar.
	I love the taste of tobacco.
	It's very relaxing.
	It has nothing to do with nicotine and I don't inhale.
	Why people should never confuse cigar and cigarette smoking.
	All right, this is it.
	Whatever is on your mind, and I will immediately proceed.
	1-8 Prager.
	7-7-6.
	Isabel in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
	Hello.
	Hello, Mr. Dennis.
	How's it going?
	Okay, thank you.
	All right, so my name is Isabel, as I said.
	I'm 27 and I changed into...
	Hold on, wait, wait, wait.
	Could you talk into the mic?
	Yeah, yeah, hold on a sec.
	Is that better?
	A drop better.
	Is that better?
	Yeah, it is better, yeah.
	All right, so I'm 27. I'm a transgender woman, and I'm conservative, and living in Massachusetts, that isn't really a popular thing, and so I don't know.
	I've been trying to call for a while.
	I just really wanted to tell you that I'm grateful for the work everyone's doing at Salem Radio Network.
	I listen to it every day at work, and it's very inspirational because I don't have a lot of support here.
	For being the way I am.
	And it's like from the left, I get constantly ridiculed and criticized for being trans and not being liberal.
	And I feel like there's something wrong there, because why do my values have to be like somebody's else just because of the way I choose to live my life?
	And I just signed up to be a poll watcher for the election in Kickfield, Mass.
	I've been starting to get involved.
	I'm working on getting able to make phone calls to help get the president re-elected.
	And it's really, really nice to listen to your show and hear all the things people have to say.
	Well, it's a delight to hear from you.
	So they call a black who's conservative and Uncle Tom.
	Is there a label for a trans who's conservative?
	Is there a label for it?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I haven't heard one either.
	I mean, it'll come, I promise.
	Well, I was raised conservative, and just because I decided to live my life how I wanted...
	Right.
	So let me ask you about that for a moment.
	At what age did you believe you were a female?
	About 16. If I'd have met you at 14, what would you have felt?
	What would you have said?
	Okay, what I would have said is I was a very uncomfortable, out-of-place boy.
	So as far back as you remember, you were uncomfortable?
	Very uncomfortable in my body.
	Fascinating.
	And did you tell your parents?
	Yes, I did.
	And my mother's coming around even still to this day.
	My father has been very supportive and he's been there for me forever.
	I was talking to the girl on the phone a minute ago from the last hour about how my father dealt with my addiction for years and finally had to, you know, take a stand against it, and I've been sober for six months now.
	And it's been very, very good.
	Why did you go to, was it alcohol?
	It was heroin.
	Heroin.
	Why do you think you gravitated to it?
	Is it connected to your discomfort?
	I think it is.
	It had a lot to do with not really knowing where to go or who to talk to or not having a good support system.
	And I met some friends when I was, you know, in my late teens and they did drugs and it makes you forget.
	You wake up the next day and you feel like you don't crack.
	Right, exactly.
	Yes, yes, I understand.
	You have all the other shit that comes into your life.
	We have to drop that.
	Don't use the word on the radio.
	I have to tell everybody.
	It's all right.
	Because we're free for the country, so we have rules.
	I want to ask you a few things about you, because the fact that you're conservative, I think I'll get very realistic answers here.
	So, if I saw you right now, would I know that you're a female?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	See, you know, my issue is not with the transgender.
	My issue is with those who mix the sexes in one person.
	I agree 100%.
	Yeah.
	No, I assumed you would by saying you're conservative.
	This is too subtle a distinction for people on the left.
	Yeah, and it's one of these things where, like, what do they have, like, 67 genders now?
	If I'm transgender, I'm still one of the two...
	Well, right.
	That's what I... Yes, exactly.
	And that's why I don't understand why they can't say ladies and gentlemen.
	You are perfectly happy with being in the ladies category.
	And the other thing, too, is like family friends and people I know from when I was younger, before I started transitioning, if they use male pronouns with me or they call me by my own name, I don't freak out and try to destroy them socially.
	There's no reason to.
	You sound healthy.
	So, one final question, which I've never quite figured out.
	Which sex are you attracted to?
	I'm attracted to men.
	So you're attracted.
	Okay.
	And do you have a love life?
	I do.
	I do.
	It's very healthy.
	That's great.
	Listen, God bless you.
	To be a conservative in Massachusetts is problematic.
	To be a transgender conservative in Massachusetts is beyond problematic.
	Well, my values aren't constantly changing.
	That's right, yes.
	Well, as I said, God bless you.
	So, you know, the left depicts all of us as haters.
	We're haters because we think...
	Oh, let me ask if she's still there.
	Isabelle, are you still there?
	Yes.
	Yeah, let me ask you one final thing.
	This happens in your neighboring state of Connecticut.
	What do you think of transgender female running against biological females in sports?
	I completely disagree with it, and I will tell you why.
	Even though I've been on hormone replacement surgery for almost five years, I can still beat almost any woman my age that's in top shape in any race.
	It's not fair.
	It's not fair.
	That's exactly it.
	It's not fair.
	That's all it comes down to.
	God.
	Yeah, this is an important call.
	Thank you very much.
	Isabel is opposed, and I'm opposed to those races.
	It's just not fair.
	We're both opposed to drag queen story hour for five-year-olds.
	The problem with that, that has nothing to do with transgender.
	That has to do with men who identify as men wearing female clothing and reading stories to kids.
	The issue is not the transgender.
	The issue is cross-dressing.
	This distinction is huge, but almost never made.
	All righty, everybody.
	And let's go to Bob in La Porte, Indiana.
	How you doing, Dennis?
	Good, thank you.
	Well, thank you.
	Hey, I appreciate you taking my call, and I appreciate your search for clarity, truth, and wisdom.
	Absolutely.
	Good.
	You had a segment on a few weeks ago about American Airlines allowing their employees to wear BLM pins.
	Right.
	Uh-oh, did I lose you?
	No.
	I've been on the whole time.
	Okay, and I have a letter back from them, because I sent a letter to their customer relations on the matter, and I just wanted to share it with you if you're interested.
	Well, is it a boilerplate letter, or does it actually deal with it?
	Pardon me?
	Is it just boilerplate?
	Because people sent me some replies.
	You know, thank you.
	We want to be inclusive.
	Thank you for reaching out to us.
	If it's more than that, I'll keep you on.
	Trending now on the Eric Metaxas Show.
	But think about this.
	The president's prognosis will probably be the most watched medical recovery in history.
	We've never had an officeholder running for re-election, basically against the virus that he's running against politically, now having to fight it physically.
	I think there's going to be a lot of observations about that.
	And again, I think this kind of casts Some sort of pale or shadow.
	I'm not sure exactly what it does.
	The thing about this president is it doesn't really matter how big the story is.
	I mean, think about this.
	Nobody's talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg anymore, and they haven't for days.
	And she only passed away, you know, however long ago.
	These things in this cycle don't seem to last very long.
	So if he gets...
	A good head of steam behind him.
	Gets recovering.
	Gets on the hydroxy.
	He's feeling better in five days.
	They say, yeah, you're going to finish the quarantine, but you can go back to a regular schedule inside the White House.
	That's going to be enormous news.
	And then, you know, who knows?
	Maybe he'll be on full blast presidency and just solving problems like we can't keep track of.
	We don't know what's going to happen there.
	But if he comes back from this with any kind of degree of stamina and health...
	I think that's going to be the determination on the election.
	I think the way the president handles the coronavirus physically in his body, I think will to some degree determine the outcome of what happens on November 3rd.
	You can't make this stuff up.
	2020 has been the weirdest year in human, at least in the modern era of human history.
	The only thing that could top this would be, since it's 2020, this could happen, that the president beats this and announces to the world that He was injecting bleach every day, and that's what got him through.
	Which we are not advocating on the Eric Metaxe Show.
	There could be that could be keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Larry Oller show.
	And while we're talking about civil rights, what about Joe Biden's decades long record of lying about his civil rights record?
	He said when he was a teenager, he went to black churches, and he strategized on how he was going to organize sit-ins and protests to desegregate restaurants and movie theaters in Wilmington, Delaware.
	The New York Times looked at this, said there was no evidence he'd done any of this, and that his aides had to, quote, gently remind them, close quote, their words, not mine.
	Gently remind him to stop saying it, but he kept saying it anyway.
	And recently, he said falsely, the NAACP has endorsed him in every single one of his elections.
	The NAACP promptly put out a statement and said, we are a 501c3.
	We don't endorse anybody.
	We've never endorsed Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden lied and said that he was arrested along with Andy Young trying to visit Nelson Mandela when Nelson Mandela was in prison in South Africa.
	Andy Young said, I wasn't arrested.
	Joe Biden wasn't arrested either.
	Furthermore, he said he was arrested.
	On Soweto, Soweto is 900 miles away from where Nelson Mandela was.
	So how you get arrested 900 miles away from where you said that you got arrested is beyond me.
	And Joe Biden lied and said when he was vice president, Nelson Mandela came to him at the White House and thanked him for attempting to visit him when he was in prison.
	No evidence, any of this happened.
	He says these things over and over and over again.
	again, as he said, you ain't really black.
	If you don't know whether or not you want to support Trump or me, you ain't really black.
	This is a man, Joe Biden, who's routinely used blacks as props.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Mike Dellinger Show.
	But there are a lot of people who are willing to say, listen, I'm really afraid of what Democrat leadership would look like in this country.
	One of the most successful black entrepreneurs in America is a guy named Robert Johnson.
	Hey, pals.
	I never called you pals before.
	Funny, isn't it?
	Funny in the sense of not...
	Haha, but funny, odd.
	I want to tell you, Dinesh D'Souza has made a new film.
	His films are self-recommending.
	The latest is Trump Card.
	It is about the president.
	It is about socialism.
	It's a big part of it.
	The Democratic Party.
	You'll learn a lot, and you'll be entertained.
	SalemNow.com I don't think it's out yet.
	It's out for you.
	It's at SalemNow.com You'll be seeing it before others do.
	Again, it's Trump Card, Dinesh D'Souza's film.
	I had him on this week.
	He's a magnificent guest.
	Trump Card at SalemNow.com They have a lot of good stuff at SalemNow.com Incidentally Oh, but they also have my...
	It just went up.
	I recorded a great dialogue with Pastor Jack Hibbs, one of the biggest churches in the country.
	Calvary Chapel.
	No, I always get that.
	Isn't that the only words that I mix up in my brain?
	Calvary.
	And at Calvary Chapel, it's in Chino Hills, California.
	So we did a dialogue.
	There were people in the audience.
	And it is about God, America, the present condition.
	You will love it.
	Yes, they're all at SalemNow.com.
	Well, there's 20% off on the Prager one.
	With Jack Hibbs.
	What is the promo code?
	Prager?
	It's either Dennis or Prager.
	SalemNow.com.
	Dinesh D'Souza's film, Trump Card.
	So, the caller who got the response from American Airlines is hung up.
	And I understand that.
	I just wanted to note that.
	He got a letter back from American Airlines about people wearing BLM lapels.
	The role of big business in crushing this country is not new that big business is run by fools.
	But it is unprecedented the amount.
	There is a statement attributed to Lenin, the father of Soviet communism.
	Western companies will compete with one another to sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
	So it is not new that Western corporations work to destroy the West.
	Which is what BLM stands for.
	It hates the West.
	That American Airlines or the other airlines would support this is a combination of cowardice, stupidity, and leftism.
	I don't want my flight attendants wearing any messages.
	If they have a religious thing around their neck, that's fine with me.
	They have crescents, if they're Muslim, if they have a cross, if they're a Christian or Jewish star.
	I have no issue with that.
	That's it.
	That's where it goes.
	Or even an American flag, because we're supposed to all be Americans.
	But beyond that, I wouldn't want a pro-life message, even though I'm pro-life.
	I want the airline, like the baseball game, to be politics-free, message-free.
	Please allow me to enjoy my flight without having a despicable organization name thrust into my face.
	Okay?
	Or even a wonderful organization name, for that matter.
	It's not what I want.
	I paid for a ticket to fly, not to be propagandized.
	Football is suffering the worst ratings almost in memory.
	And there's no question it has to do.
	It's not only because of, but it has to do with the F.U. statement of the NFL and so many of its players to the fans.
	I'm astonished that anybody watches it.
	If you're a leftist, then football or basketball is your sport, no question.
	Your hatred of America is completely echoed by the NFL and the NBA, and to a certain extent, Major League Baseball.
	But for the rest of you, it's been an alienating experience.
	To the extent that the NFL commissioner has announced that maybe next year we'll cool it on the messages.
	I think the damage has been so severe.
	But people have short memories.
	Maybe it'll come back.
	Alright, let's go to your calls here.
	And...
	George in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Hello, George.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Hey, sir.
	Nice to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	So, yes, I'm a big fan.
	I've been listening for a long time.
	But I have heard you talk about how cigars do not absorb any nicotine.
	I never said you don't absorb.
	I said you don't inhale.
	Yes, and even with not inhaling, I'm just letting you know that you do absorb nicotine through the mucus membranes of your mouth.
	I know.
	So what?
	Well, I just...
	To me, it always sounded like you get zero nicotine any time you talk about...
	No, no, no.
	I said it's dishonest to compare cigarettes and cigars because you don't inhale cigars, and the purpose of a cigar has nothing to do with nicotine.
	There's nicotine in tomatoes, but nobody eats tomatoes for the nicotine.
	Nobody smokes cigars for the nicotine.
	We smoke it for the taste.
	People smoke cigarettes for the nicotine.
	I disagree.
	I actually think that people do enjoy the nicotine from cigars.
	I smoke cigars.
	I have a pipe, and I've also smoked cigarettes.
	And I've battled cigarettes and chewing tobacco for a couple years.
	And that is why, like, if someone is not a cigar smoker, and they go into a cigar...
	They ask if they give them a really strong cigar.
	Someone who's never smoked a cigar oftentimes will get sick.
	Right.
	They'll get a headache.
	Yeah.
	Not sick, but they'll get a headache.
	Yeah.
	I like destroying the cigars, but I totally agree with you that could happen.
	Anyway, we're really not far apart.
	I hope you do stop the chewing.
	The chewing tobacco is the worst.
	The second worst is cigarettes, and then there's a Grand Canyon separating that, and pipes and cigars.
	I want people to enjoy life as much as possible without doing truly dangerous things.
	We'll be back I was a private citizen, not a member of the broadcast community.
	I went as a private citizen because the press was closed off at a special event yesterday in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump National is, where the president dropped by to just give greetings to close friends in the area.
	This is his neighborhood, as it were.
	He came from New York, was in Florida now, but he comes to New Jersey, and it's only about 20 minutes from my house.
	In kind of about an hour southwest of New York City, a beautiful bucolic area of New Jersey.
	So they said, Joe, would you drop by, say hi, shake some hands?
	I said, I'd be more than happy to because I really believe this election, we're in the fight of our life.
	And Mike, you know, and like we talked about on the show, I saw the president.
	He was at the top of his game.
	It was three o'clock yesterday.
	When I tell you charming and vulnerable and funny and warm.
	And powerful.
	You know what he did?
	He did a speech for about a half an hour or so.
	And he had to go.
	He had to be back at the White House.
	Wheels up at 4.30 out of Morristown, New Jersey.
	And he said, you know what?
	He looked at the people all around me.
	I got to take questions.
	These are my people.
	And he took 45 minutes he did questions, Mike.
	The stamina of this man.
	And I'm telling you what.
	I don't really...
	I concern myself with whether people like the president or not.
	I'm speaking objectively here because I'm a workout geek.
	You know that, Mike, you know?
	Sure, I know.
	You're fit.
	But I'll try anyway.
	But the stamina of President Trump, his voice was strong.
	And I talked to Dr. Greer this morning, Dr. Stephen Greer, one of our guys on the air, and Dr. Greer reiterated.
	He said the president's voice was strong.
	I said, like, top of his game.
	game.
	And that would indicate that he is asymptomatic and everything's going to be great.
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	This is Owen Strand for townhall.com.
	If you're on a college campus today or have a child on campus, there's a solid chance you'll hear this.
	All white people are racist.
	You might hear this too.
	America is founded on white supremacy.
	These two sentences are not mere overheated emotion.
	They express an ideology called critical race theory or CRT. Which argues that race is a social construct made by white people.
	Just as race was once used to enslave and terrorize, so it is used today to keep America unequal, unfair and hostile to minorities.
	The Trump administration just took symbolic and courageous action against CRT. It issued a memo to federal agencies calling for the end of the government's CRT racial sensitivity trainings, terming them divisive anti-American propaganda.
	Does America have real issues in its past?
	Yes.
	Have we made real progress that we must guard carefully?
	Also, yes.
	The White House has led well here.
	I'm Owen Strand.
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	I'm interested in hearing your reaction to the debate.
	It certainly was different, wasn't it?
	Feisty, entertaining, combative.
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	Back to you.
	And thine calls?
	Hmm.
	Dan in your Belinda and my Belinda, California.
	Hello.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Thanks so much for putting me on.
	I love your show.
	I just wanted to refer back a couple of callers ago.
	You had a transgender lady on whose story was so compelling, I immediately thought of...
	Candace Owen and Larry Heldert, and what a power they have when they explain their perspective.
	She came across the same way.
	In fact, she finished her story by saying, transgender means you're one or the other.
	There's not 52 other.
	That's right.
	That's correct.
	And I think you should do a PragerU video with that woman if you can contact her.
	Or someone...
	You know, that's a very interesting idea.
	I never thought of that.
	Isabel, send me an email.
	That's a very interesting point.
	That would shock the people who don't like PragerU.
	We shock them all the time.
	You have no idea.
	You really don't.
	And there's no reason you should.
	How much we're attacked?
	How much I am?
	How much they are?
	Do you know that 99% of the attacks on me take words that I have said and they pull them completely out of context?
	Because context is everything.
	And it's...
	I have to write an article on answering the attacks.
	And you will see how completely irresponsible, morally, intellectually, places like media matters are.
	It doesn't matter to them, because they're paid to destroy conservatives.
	They're not paid to do it honorably.
	And they have very little impact.
	I only know about it because I got a Google alert on my name.
	But the PragerU stuff is fascinating.
	It bothers people because we have such responsible people saying such responsible things.
	And they don't know what to do with us because we keep growing.
	But the transgender idea is a very good one.
	Okay, let's see here.
	Alan in Pomona, California.
	Hello.
	Dennis.
	I'm a retired teacher, and I'm doing private tutoring to Chinese students.
	And you may know that Southern California has the largest Chinese community outside of China.
	And the main complaint that my students have against the president, as I understand it, and this is even among those who support the president, is that they feel that under President Trump, it's more difficult to get immigration status Ask
	them if they think that any country has the right to control the number of people who come into it.
	What would they say?
	I don't know.
	I'll ask you to find out.
	That's it.
	There's no country on earth that doesn't do that.
	But there are more people who want to come to America precisely because we have made it, we have shaped it in the image of American values.
	Bringing in vast numbers...
	I'm sorry?
	Their complaint is the process is long and drawn out and more complex.
	Yes, that's probably true.
	That is correct.
	But the reason that they want to be here is because we have preserved our value system, and you can't do that if you have unlimited numbers of people coming in, bringing in different values.
	The issue is not ethnicity.
	New Yorkers bring foreign values to Florida.
	What did you say, Sean?
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	But think about this.
	The president's prognosis will probably be the most watched medical recovery in history.
	We've never had an officeholder running for re-election, basically against the virus that he's running against politically, now having to fight it physically.
	I think there's going to be a lot of observations about that.
	And again, I think this kind of casts Some sort of pale or shadow.
	I'm not sure exactly what it does.
	The thing about this president is it doesn't really matter how big the story is.
	I mean, think about this.
	Nobody's talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg anymore, and they haven't for days.
	And she only passed away, you know, however long ago.
	These things in this cycle don't seem to last very long.
	So if he gets...
	A good head of steam behind him gets recovering.
	He gets on the hydroxy.
	He's feeling better in five days.
	They say, yeah, you're going to finish the quarantine, but you can go back to a regular schedule inside the White House.
	That's going to be enormous news.
	And then, you know, who knows?
	Maybe he'll be on full blast presidency and just solving problems like we can't keep track of.
	We don't know what's going to happen there.
	But if he comes back from this with any kind of degree of stamina and health...
	I think that's going to be the determination on the election.
	I think the way the president handles the coronavirus physically in his body, I think will to some degree determine the outcome of what happens on November 3rd.
	You can't make this stuff up.
	2020 has been the weirdest year in human, at least in the modern era of human history.
	The only thing that could top this would be, since it's 2020 this could happen, that the president beats this and announces to the world that He was injecting bleach every day, and that's what got him through.
	Which we are not advocating on the Eric Metaxe Show.
	There's no...
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	And while we're talking about civil rights, what about Joe Biden's decades-long record of lying about his civil rights record?
	He said when he was a teenager, he went to black churches, and he strategized on how he was going to organize sit-ins and protests to desegregate restaurants and movie theaters in Wilmington, Delaware.
	The New York Times looked at this, said there was no evidence he'd done any of this, and that his aides had to, quote, gently remind them, close quote, their words, not mine.
	Gently remind him to stop saying it, but he kept saying it anyway.
	And recently, he said falsely, the NAACP has endorsed him in every single one of his elections.
	The NAACP promptly put out a statement and said, we are a 501c3.
	We don't endorse anybody.
	Anybody, we've never endorsed.
	All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here. Dennis Prager here.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I'm reading about the polls that put Joe Biden way ahead.
	Of course, they put Hillary Clinton.
	The New York Times, the day of the election, said she had an 87% chance of winning.
	So I don't know if they're accurate or not.
	But said that he's only one point ahead of Joe Biden on handling the economy.
	Man made the best economy in modern American history, and he's only one point ahead.
	That is depressing, not because I want Donald Trump re-elected.
	It is depressing because it means that a vast number of Americans have no idea what is going on in their country.
	You want a socialist party to take over the economy after this man has lowered the unemployment rate to the lowest in modern history and the lowest ever for blacks, for example?
	And you think that the left will do a better job with the economy?
	Where does the left do a good job?
	New York City?
	Chicago?
	Baltimore?
	Philadelphia?
	Where does the left do a good job?
	That's why I say the word is depressing.
	If this is true, he has a 17-point margin on handling the coronavirus?
	Really?
	More people out of work?
	More people depressed?
	More child abuse?
	More kids not playing with kids?
	More kids not studying in school?
	That's a great plan.
	Oh, God.
	What are you going to do?
	All right, my friends.
	Matt in Los Angeles.
	Hello.
	Dennis.
	Yes.
	Good to speak with you after 40 long years.
	We last spoke 40 years ago?
	I was nine years old.
	And how did I get to see you?
	No.
	Because I wasn't on the radio.
	I wasn't on the radio 40 years ago.
	Religion on the line.
	Yeah, religion on the line.
	I started in 82. Oh, okay.
	My closest estimate.
	That's okay, no problem.
	I was just curious.
	I mean, I might have been 40 years ago.
	Okay.
	In the first hour this morning, You used a very interesting phrase, unprecedented in history, and you quickly pointed out the redundancy of it and said, for those who appreciate our language, you might like that.
	And I did.
	It struck me immediately.
	And I found humor in that.
	And the reason I caught one of the call is that, and you mentioned context earlier a few minutes ago, and there is context.
	In the context of talking about the lockdowns and how horrible things are, And how maddening our situation is.
	You have this unique, uncanny ability to sometimes come up with these little morsels of humor.
	And you found a way to put a smile on my face in the context of talking about this horrific, brutal, unpleasant stuff.
	And it takes a special person to do that.
	And I just thought...
	Well, it takes a special person to call up to note it.
	Well, I just wanted to share that with you.
	Well, I'm glad you did.
	I have a vast number of throwaway lines in the course of a week.
	And those who appreciate them, appreciate them.
	My view is that with regard to these throwaway lines, that there's a percentage that love them, a percentage No, there aren't three groups.
	Really, it's a percentage that love them.
	I don't think there's a percentage that hates them.
	I think one-third love them and two-thirds, it simply sails by like a drone.
	No, like a silent drone.
	So, for those of you who like it, I'm very happy for you, because I really like it.
	Mona Cleveland, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Yes.
	I have a question I have wanted to ask you for years.
	My standard answer is Bismarck.
	That would be a frightening answer, given this question.
	Okay, alright.
	Oh yeah, that's funny.
	Go ahead.
	My question is, to whom do you look for advice and counsel?
	You lead your own high holiday services.
	You have your own university.
	To whom do you go for your authority?
	Wait, authority or advice?
	Well, both.
	Well, my authority is God.
	Well, my authority is the Bible, and that's why I'm writing my commentary on the first five books to explain how that really could lead and guide your life in a relevant way.
	A lot of people study the Bible, and God bless them, but they don't make it as relevant as it is.
	Anyway, so that's why it's a plug.
	From the bottom of my heart, from the Rational Bible, my work on the Bible.
	But for advice, I am blessed with a wife and friends who possess wisdom.
	And I have absolutely no issue with asking for advice.
	I actually like getting advice, and I like being corrected, and I like being edited.
	You know that every column of mine goes through three editors?
	And the more they change, the more I'm happy?
	Because all I want is a great column.
	I have no interest in being right.
	I am interested in producing what is right.
	So I am surrounded by people who give me good advice.
	I ultimately make up my own mind.
	Clearly.
	My wife and I differ on what tie I should wear, but I still, 90% of the time, I take her advice.
	But on more important issues, I always take her advice.
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	Say that we don't know how he will fare, nor how the First Lady will fare significantly.
	Sometimes I have been shocked in the last months when you hear that somebody died.
	When I heard that Herman Cain died, my goodness.
	So this is tremendously serious, which brings up the question how this will play with regard to this election.
	Does it give him sympathy?
	I think...
	It does.
	In other words, I think that it humanizes him precisely in the way that his debate performance didn't humanize him.
	In other words, that was him at his worst, what people who don't like him or who don't know what they think of him, that didn't help him.
	I think this helps him.
	It humanizes him.
	You know, Eric, you and I are both born-again Christians and we believe that God is sovereign and that he has a purpose for our lives.
	I was actually thinking of that point specifically while I was contemplating what to write because I do think that...
	As for all the good that he has done that he could be even better with the reminder that his abilities only take him so far and that life is precious and that as God grants him each breath literally when you're talking about COVID you're talking about a respiratory issue as he grants him the next breath there is a gratitude that can be sewn into his heart for being able to do what he's what he's doing and I think if you took the Monster accomplishments of
	Trump.
	And you added to that genuine God-centered humility that life is precious and life is valuable and we have to be thankful for every day and every breath that we have.
	I think that makes him, as you said, more sympathetic in ways that I don't think anything else could.
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	This is an enormous moment for our nation.
	I will say I've been kind of lifted up a little bit by seeing some of the president's fiercest political opponents.
	Wish him Godspeed and recovery from this.
	What's your perspective as somebody who knows the president, as somebody who's been with the president many times?
	What's the Charlie Kirk worldview on the news that the president and the first lady have tested positive for COVID? Like everyone else, still processing it from a macro perspective.
	I can tell you that the president is a terrific fighter.
	Look, he's going to take this very seriously.
	And this is not anything that any of us expected.
	People will politicize this.
	I saw a couple people very late last night when this news broke around 1 o'clock Eastern try to politicize it.
	But I think the rank and file are handling this fine from the Democrats and the left.
	But look, anyone who says they know what's going to happen is just guessing right now, Mike.
	And I just want to reinforce that.
	When I have a prediction, I will say it.
	I don't.
	There are about 500 different variables at play here of how this will impact the Supreme The final segment of the final hour of the
	final show of the week.
	There's always a bittersweet knowledge.
	The weeks, I don't understand, I really don't, why the weeks have gone so fast that we are in the middle of October.
	It does not make any sense to me.
	You would think that with the simple depressing fact of the lockdown, life would go very slowly.
	But look at where we are.
	Alrighty, everybody.
	Yes, indeed.
	Where is my man in Erie, Pennsylvania?
	Tony in Erie, hello.
	Hello, Dennis.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Mm-hmm.
	That last call you made sound so final.
	It's final till Monday.
	Then things renew again.
	Topic I want to get your take on.
	It seems like neither the right nor the left want to talk about it.
	So I feel, you know, like...
	I don't know what to make of it.
	I did a lot of reading throughout history.
	Man, I've found several times, and something that helped me as well is the framers of the Constitution.
	One of the main concerns was...
	Well, the country is torn apart, but it's not because of partisan politics.
	It's because of the leftist aim to de-americanize America.
	I don't mean that ethnically.
	There's no American ethnicity.
	I mean it in terms of values.
	There is an attempt to undo the American Revolution.
	From the New York Times, to the universities, to the high schools and elementary schools, to sports, to the media.
	It's unprecedented in the history.
	Well, there we go again.
	It's unprecedented.
	We've never had this.
	The elites of a society seek to destroy it.
	That's the combination of secularism, boredom, love of power.
	It's a bad one.
	It's lethal.
	Craig, Rod, Scott, Jerry, Marianne, and Frank.
	Good stuff.
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	My friends, We have to carry on and we have to work very hard.
	Selection coming up is not about Donald Trump.

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